23 Sep 1959
Way of Youth
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.
The Good Soldier Schweik
Joint montage of the first three silent films about Švejk: Good Soldier Švejk (1926, director: Karel Lamač), Švejk on the Front (1926, director Karel Lamač) and Švejk in Russian Captivity (1926, director: Svatopluk Innemann, model Karel Vaněk). The lead role was played by Karel Noll, who was very popular at the time. The last silent sequel Švejk v civilu (1927) exists independently, but the copy of the film is badly damaged.
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Saša Rašilov 
Oskar Marion Jan Richter 
Hugo Haas 
Antonie Nedošinská 
Josef Rovenský 
Jaroslav Marvan 
Jarmila Vacková 
Alexander Třebovský 
Eman Fiala 
Milka Balek-Brodská 
Eduard Šlégl 
Felix Kühne 
Theodor Pištěk Mario Karas Karel Schleichert Anna Fričová Ludvík Hradský Emil Dlesk 
Jan W. Speerger
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